 Victor lives at his ancestral, 18th-century country estate named Llanfair with his daughters Victoria (nicknamed "Viki") and Meredith.Victor's wife and Victoria and Meredith's mother, Eugenia Randolph Lord, dies while giving birth to Meredith.With no son to succeed him, Victor concentrates on grooming elder Viki strictly, with her position as legal heiress to his fortune.